American - Writer | January 13, 1955 -
You know, I'm always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.
Jay McInerney
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I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.
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I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. I mean, not deliberately - I'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not.
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There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.
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My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.
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Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.
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I think a lot of the people who write about me think that if they had to write fewer interviews then they would transcribe their life-story and it would be a big success. Or should be.
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Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.
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There aren't many shy writers left.
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Mine is not an autonomous imagination.
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I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.
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I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.
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